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Andy Ritchie

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Andy Ritchie (who writes under his Sunday name of Andrew) lives a relatively unremarkable life with his long-suffering wife, Wendy, his two inordinately expensive-to-keep daughters, Kayleigh and Emily, and the ghost of their recently deceased three-legged cat, Burt.
They live in a well-appointed detached house on the outskirts of the occasionally exciting former cotton-mill town of Darwen in Lancashire, which remarkably was never actually mentioned in the Domesday Book.

Andy is fifty years old but remains (in his own eyes at least) fairly ‘hip’ and ‘cool’ on the basis that he owns an iPod, can use Facebook, has completed Halo, and knows who George Ezra is.
In addition to becoming a published author, published poet and published photographer ...more

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Average rating: 4.61 · 31 ratings · 18 reviews · 5 distinct works

	The Book That THEY Do Not Want You To Read Part 1 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Plus Zone 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book That THEY Do Not Want You To Read (Part 2) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book That THEY Do Not Want You To Read (Part 3) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God, Aliens, Death & Teapots 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Shape of Things to Come...Sadly Not

Below is a short review I did of H.G.Wells' 'The Shape of Things to Come'.
The more attentive amongst you will have deduced from the title of this blog entry that the review is not altogether positive.

It's with a heavy heart that I admit that I gave up on this book.
Although it's touted as a sci-fi work, it isn't really - instead, it's almost like a piece of non-fiction, a historical analysis, n Read more of this blog post »

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